“I wrote this book to bear witness to what women with conditions like endometriosis are going through, and how the world responds to them.”
Happy Publication Day to Evelyn Scott and her book A Bloody Scandal! The Book Fairies celebrated by sharing copies across the UK today…
Who was lucky enough to spot one?
About the book:
Evelyn was just a teenager when she first began suffering with the symptoms of endometriosis – a reproductive condition that affects one in ten women. For fifteen years, she endured constant, agonising pain. Where she was desperate for clarity and support from medical practitioners, she was instead met with cold dismissals of hysteria and irresponsible misdiagnoses. Her pain left her completely isolated – until sharing her story revealed to her that countless other women were suffering the same fate.
A Bloody Scandal is a personal and shocking account of this gynaecological neglect. Weaving her own experiences with those of women from all across the globe, Evelyn examines the medical, political and educational failures that are causing preventable harm to women with reproductive conditions everywhere.
Unflinchingly honest, this book is both a forceful reckoning with broken systems around the world and an urgent call for empathy-led care. Above all, it is a bold, compassionate show of solidarity with the women whose bodies are still being failed today.
Get your hands on a copy!
This book is out NOW and available in bookshops – if they don’t have it in stock, did you know that they can order a copy in for you and it will normally arrive the very next day? If you prefer to shop online for your new books, head to Bookshop.org to order A Bloody Scandal, and feel smug that you’ve chosen a great website that supports indies up and down the UK!
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